On the environment, it was the same, moving from 48 to 17 (74%) in 1980 to 65 to 5 (93%) at the close of the administration.
At a news conference after the vote, where Mr. Bloomberg made a rare appearance on the speaker's side of City Hall, officials sought to play down the narrowness of their hard-won victory, among the closest of this administration in a body that typically votes in near unanimity.
Howard Dean of Vermont in many polls, said that upon his election he would use an executive order to reinstate immediately the five-year ban on lobbying by former government officials that was rescinded at the close of the Clinton administration.
Also in those first days, he officially banned the practice of torture in interrogation, methods that had ceased by the close of the Bush administration.
At the close of the Obama administration, the Justice Department issued a scathing report on systemic civil rights abuses at the Chicago Police Department and set the stage for negotiations with the city for a federal monitoring agreement.
Trade relations with the European Union in disarray at the close of the Clinton administration—have been sufficiently repaired that Mr Zoellick can now claim (self-servingly but aptly) that economic links, rather than security alliances, are the glue of the present transatlantic relationship.
Enron CEO Ken Lay later offered Summers a seat on the board of Enron, as he had done with the previous Treasury Secretary, Robert Rubin, at the close of the Clinton administration; Summers turned it down in light of his appointment as president of Harvard.
At least 32 people were killed and 52 were wounded on Thursday when a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle close to the office of administration officials in the northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province. Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province
Thanks to a deal brokered by Mr. White's close friend Stephanie Smith, director of administration of the School of Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture of the City College of New York, where Mr. White taught for a quarter of a century, that partner was Mr. Leadon, a 42-year-old assistant professor at the school.
Last month they moved a step closer to coming out of administration after creditors voted in favour of former owner Balram Chainrai's Company Voluntary Arrangement proposal, while the Pompey Supporters' Trust are also bidding to take over the cash-strapped club.
An agreement in Lithuania this week took Hearts closer to coming out of administration under a new owner.
